Nick Sheridan looks to revive Michigan State football glory, offense

EAST LANSING – Nick Sheridan rattled off the names like family members. “Bill Burke, Chris Baker, Plaxico Burress, Gary Scott, Amp Campbell, Sorie Kanu. I mean, I remember all these guys.

These were really my heroes, these guys were giants to me,” Michigan State football’s new offensive coordinator said Tuesday, MArch 31. “TJ Turner, Josh Thornhill – I could go on and on. ” Sheridan had a personal view of the Spartans ’ stars on some of the best teams of the 1990s, with his dad serving as Nick Saban’s linebackers coach at MSU.

Even though Bill Sheridan migrated south to Ann Arbor in his professional journey and his son would eventually play quarterback for Michigan, that passion and those preteen memories made for “an easy decision” for Nick Sheridan to join the staff of Pat Fitzgerald – someone else whose football life he admired – at MSU. LEAVING EAST LANSING: Trey Augustine, Michigan State goalie, signs with Detroit Red Wings “When I was growing up, in college and after college, I looked up to Pat Fitzgerald,” Sheridan said after the Spartans ’ seventh spring practice early Tuesday morning. “That was really just someone that I tried to emulate, someone I wanted to be like.

This was a very easy decision for me, one I’m extremely grateful and appreciative of. ” After learning under the tutelage of Kalen DeBoer – over the past four years at Washington and Alabama, as well as 2019 at Indiana – the 2006 Saline High grad returns to his home state and the school where the now 37-year-old Sheridan watched his dad work alongside Saban and Mark Dantonio from 1998-2000. That experience, along with coaching in the College Football Playoff in two of the past three seasons, enticed Fitzgerald to bringing Sheridan back to MSU.